April 11, 2014

Birthday Classics: May - Day 2

Hello there! It's Day 2 of the Papertrey April Countdown and I'm back with more Birthday Classics: May cards to share with you!

All of the new products you're getting peeks at this week will be available for purchase at Papertrey Ink beginning on April 15 at 10pm EST.

For this first card, I started out with an aqua mist card base and embossed it with the Cover Plate: Quatrefoil die. Next, I die cut some rustic cream card stock with the wine bottle tag die and stamped it with the large sentiment from Birthday Classics: May.

To accent the sentiment, I used the new Button Stacks II dies (Nichole Heady shared more info about these yesterday on her blog) as well as a few layers that were cut with the original Button Stacks dies. I stacked up all the layers of aqua mist, hawaiian shores, berry sorbet and melon berry card stock, as well as a couple melon berry felt layers, and stitched the stacks together with rustic cream button twine. Tucked behind the button stacks are some Ruby Rose leaves.

Next up is a birthday card with a bit of a masculine feel.

I started out with a kraft card base and topped it with a harvest gold panel. On both, I stamped some larger leaves from Meadow Greens, using kraft and harvest gold inks.

Then I used the Leave It Be stamps and dies, to create the stack of leaves. The inks I used were tropical teal, new leaf and ripe avocado. I achieved different looks by mixing and matching inks on the two-step leaves. Lastly, the sentiment combination from Birthday Classics: May was stamped with smokey shadow ink.

One more for you today......for this one, I got pretty artsy! I started out with a rustic cream card base as well as a piece of vintage book print. On the book print, I stamped Background Basics: Art Deco using raspberry fizz and smokey shadow inks and then splattered the page with pinstripe and neon pink Mister Huey's spray mists.

The Bold Bouquet stamps and dies were used to create these fun flower clusters. I used limeade ice and raspberry fizz inks and topped the smaller limeade flowers with some limeade ice buttons.

Lastly, I used the new Initial Thoughts stamps and dies (see Nichole Heady's blog for more info), to create the sentiment frame, and then stamped two sentiment pieces from Birthday Classics: May inside the frame! I love that they can be used together!

All righty then, I'm off for now but I hope you were inspired just a tiny bit by today's projects!

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Hello there! It's Day 2 of the Papertrey April Countdown and I'm back with more Birthday Classics: May cards to share with you!

All of the new products you're getting peeks at this week will be available for purchase at Papertrey Ink beginning on April 15 at 10pm EST.

For this first card, I started out with an aqua mist card base and embossed it with the Cover Plate: Quatrefoil die. Next, I die cut some rustic cream card stock with the wine bottle tag die and stamped it with the large sentiment from Birthday Classics: May.

To accent the sentiment, I used the new Button Stacks II dies (Nichole Heady shared more info about these yesterday on her blog) as well as a few layers that were cut with the original Button Stacks dies. I stacked up all the layers of aqua mist, hawaiian shores, berry sorbet and melon berry card stock, as well as a couple melon berry felt layers, and stitched the stacks together with rustic cream button twine. Tucked behind the button stacks are some Ruby Rose leaves.

Next up is a birthday card with a bit of a masculine feel.

I started out with a kraft card base and topped it with a harvest gold panel. On both, I stamped some larger leaves from Meadow Greens, using kraft and harvest gold inks.

Then I used the Leave It Be stamps and dies, to create the stack of leaves. The inks I used were tropical teal, new leaf and ripe avocado. I achieved different looks by mixing and matching inks on the two-step leaves. Lastly, the sentiment combination from Birthday Classics: May was stamped with smokey shadow ink.

One more for you today......for this one, I got pretty artsy! I started out with a rustic cream card base as well as a piece of vintage book print. On the book print, I stamped Background Basics: Art Deco using raspberry fizz and smokey shadow inks and then splattered the page with pinstripe and neon pink Mister Huey's spray mists.

The Bold Bouquet stamps and dies were used to create these fun flower clusters. I used limeade ice and raspberry fizz inks and topped the smaller limeade flowers with some limeade ice buttons.

Lastly, I used the new Initial Thoughts stamps and dies (see Nichole Heady's blog for more info), to create the sentiment frame, and then stamped two sentiment pieces from Birthday Classics: May inside the frame! I love that they can be used together!

All righty then, I'm off for now but I hope you were inspired just a tiny bit by today's projects!

Hi there! I'm Dawn McVey and I'd like to welcome you to my little corner of the internet. My hope is that you'll find this place warm and welcoming! I'm a graphic designer with a heart for God. I love color and all things vintage! I live with my handsome husband, Bart, and Windsor, the labrador retriever. I've been blessed beyond measure and I'm so, so grateful! I hope you enjoy your time with me.